rider quotes

A good rider may often be thrown from his horse, And climb on once again to face forward his course, Which is how I went forward myself on my way, And come,Christ, and give me my true judgment day.

-Anonymous
c TraditionalIrish poem. Translatedby Owen Dudley Edwards.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 2.

A little neglect may breed mischief†for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

- Benjamin Franklin
  Poor Richard's  Almanack, preface.

Every known class of refusal was successfully exhibited. Onehorse endeavoured to climbtherailsintothe Grand Stand; another, having stoppeddeadatthecritical point, swung round, and returned in consternation to the starting-point, with hisrider hanging likea locket around his neck. Another, dowered with a sense of humour

-Martin Ross
Nicaraguan   dictator,   educated   in   the   US.   As   Chief   of   the National  Guard  he  established  himself  in  supreme  power  in the  early 1930s,  and  retained  it  until  assassinated,  when  the rule passed to his sons.

Thereisnosecret so closeasthat betweena riderand his horse.

- Robert Smith Surtees
Attributed.

The horse that comes from the road, The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change; A shadow of cloud on the stream Changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Easter1916', l.45^56. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).